Go talk to the House of Representatives
But prez is king who change anything by decree...
You're right, it's totally fine that he doesn't do anything to put it on the agenda.
Because he's not a literal king, we can't criticise him for ignoring people's needs and failing to say or do anything to push for something that is not only sorely needed but extremely popular across political divides.
It's totally fine that the entire dem primary field was talking about medicare for all when a popular candidate was forcing them to, and then we didn't hear one word about it after everyone rallied together to force that guy out. Don't criticise in election season, you don't want Trump do you?
I mean, give him some time! He's just a new baby president! Everyone knows you get a few months to just kind of chill and get a feel for the space.
Oh but we can't talk about it now, look at what the republicans are doing, it's just such a crisis right now, we're just reacting to their crazy antics!
Oh we lost congress in the midterms, now we can't do anything.
Listen, you can't expect the president to actually do anything. Because he's not a literal king.
Fucking libs. You spend all your time telling us to follow a process, and when the process gets nothing done, you tell us not to blame you, it's just the process! It's just hard, and slow, and it takes time, and we really need to wait for another four or eight or twelve years, and then maybe another dem will get elected and kind of partially undo some of the damage the last guy did and not actually make any progress to make up for it.
And when we try to point this out, you call us whiny little babies who aren't educated and mature enough to sit around waiting for Godot to finally pull his thumb out and show up.
This meme is full of shit:
First Biden term: Increased health benefits for veterans, lowered insurance premiums for people who sign up through ACA, opened special enrollment resulting in 2.5 million Americans signing up for insurance, lowered the cost of insulin, streamlined ACA applications, removed medical coverage caps for children, increased transparency in pharmaceutical pricing, investing 2.5 billion in mental health, expanded telehealth across the nation, especially for rural communities.
The American healthcare system sucks, and Biden has made definite significant improvements to make it suck less for tens of millions of people in just a few years.
"if you don't like it, then leave!" is not a good campaign pitch.
Phew, good thing nobody is saying that.
Actually, you're totally wrong. Healthcare in US is private and making access to private healthcare easier doesn't solve any real problems. It just pumps more money into insurance companies and private hospitals. The healthcare expenditure is still raising (and is highest in the world with worst results than in other countries), medical bills are still growing (including out of pocket costs), people have more and more debt and insurance companies are doing great on the stock market. And this is exactly what Biden wants: preserve the status quo and pump more money into private healthcare companies. The main difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans want to cut government spending and make individuals pay directly to the private sector (so they can charge even more) while Democrats want to tax people and pump money into private sector through ACA (in a more controlled way). That's it.
When people say 'healthcare' they mean 'system without huge out of pocket costs and crashing debt', not 'a bit cheaper private insurance'.
Boy are you nominally correct but entirely wrong on sentiment, clarity and motivation.
My previous comment, about American healthcare being terrible, disclaims your ostensibly argumentative position and is a review of having used the American healthcare system 15 years ago and not having used it since because of how terrible it is.
I am not advocating for using the American healthcare system, I am correcting the incorrect opinion that Biden is not focusing on health care, while accessible and affordable healthcare is a primary concern of the Biden administration that he has significantly addressed with executive support about a dozen times in his first term.
Since Americans keep voting for and buying into the private health care system, Biden is making the option American citizens are choosing and American corporations are pushing, more affordable and accessible.
His administration is doing the best they can with what American citizens choose to pay for and American corporations choose to provide.
As I have said before and will say again the president is not a dictator.
Spending bills must originate in the house which is currently controlled by the party of no. You can threaten not to vote all you want but you will only hurt yourself.
As it is this meme is just misleading.
The president has the most powerful tool at his disposal: The bully pulpit.
The president is the de facto leader of the political party, the president can make anything a headline in every news source, and the president has very deep pockets to make use of these powers.
For all of their flaws, both the Bush and Trump administrations used these tools to their advantage. They picked something they wanted, and made it happen through heavy pressure on their part members up and down that various branches of government, through directions given to appointed department heads, through heavy media blitz and through every other avenue of influence they have.
Biden has done a better job than his democratic predecessor to use these powers, but no Democrat in the white house in recent memory has used these powers like the republicans do
So you’re solution is to just make everything a sideshow cuz it worked once for a sideshow.
He is probably reluctant because being apart of Obama's use of it to reform social security, Medicare, and pass affordable care act. Only to be burned and be a lame duck for 6 years
Trump begs to different. Why did the right get all the dictators?
Wtf is/are retail politics?
Does that mean I can demand to see the manager?
The thing about retail politics is we just saw a republican primary where everyone was doing retail politics EXCEPT the guy who easily won. I hope Biden's team is smarter than that.
That's your conclusion from the Republican primaries so far?
How about some inflation regulation so I can afford a place to live or you know the rest of the hierarchy of needs.
Biden can come up with the best healthcare plan ever and the GOP won't approve it because Biden/liberals/Democrats/etc.
and yet they don't even try.
i'm pretty sure a union can help more with that than joe
That and a Democratic Congress that can actually raise the minimum wage.
MIC makes way too much money to allow this to happen
I am not entirely sure Americans are really partial towards free healthcare
I'm British, and it's a cornerstone of our society. While the Tories have been trying to grind it down for over a decade, I still believe that if the NHS were scrapped we'd see full-scale, national riots.
Sadly, I agree. While the president does not get to dictate this, I always maintain that you get the politicians you deserve. There aren't enough widespread calls for nationalised healthcare in America...so why would Biden do it to appease a small percentage of people? If you actually wanted it, you'd promote a career politician that focuses on this movement.
